n. Someone who, during the Irish famine, supplied food such as soup to Catholics who converted to Protestantism.
n. A (former) Catholic who converted to Protestantism in order to gain such food.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A Middle English form of supper.
n. In Ireland, a name applied in derision to a Protestant missionary or a convert from Roman Catholicism, from the fact that the missionaries are said to assist their work by distributing soup to their converts.
Word Usage
"* In Chateauneuf du Pape, where we harvested grapes last Sunday, we feasted on porc à la moutarde after the harvest so it somehow seemed sacrilege to finish the vendange and not "souper" * on some comforting potage* this week."